Flanagan found place for boys to call home

11:27 PM,
May 14, 2013

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A December 1931 Time magazine article described Edward Joseph Flanagan's mission: "He entered one of Omaha's poor parishes in 1913. The hardships of his own people had accustomed but not blinded him to human misery. In the winter of 1914 he began trying to feed and house a few down-&-outers, many of them drunkards and criminals. 'What made them that way?' wondered Father Flanagan. Deciding that the best place to combat human woe is near the beginning of human life, he borrowed $90, found five urchins, started a home for homeless, wayward, neglected boys."